Maou no Hajimekata

Sora, here comes the rookie.

"Yeah, again, uh?

Marie breathes with her shoulders, even as she canes her two swords.

"Already, Eunice can help!

"Meh. It's like training."

To Marie, who put up her sword and said a cry, Eunice replied with a pimple.

It is the beasts of the human form that loom in front of us. That number, trisomy.

The overall body construction is very similar to that of humans. But his whole body was covered in deep hair, he produced sharp fangs, and he wielded long hook paws. That was not a man, no matter how he saw it. There are several sharp horns growing over the first eye that just stares at this one. Tena and Utsu called it a 'ghost'.

"Yikes!

Marie slaps into the ghost's belly with her witchcraft arm as she shifts her flying ghost nails with her sword.

"Ah, already, hard!

But the thick, wretched hair absorbs the shock easily and does not scratch one.

Marie bit her teeth even though the first ghost to fight could have broken off with this.

Not only are you tired, but the more you go in the back, the more clearly your enemies are stronger.

"Um, can I help you, too?

The first of the three ghosts saw Marie on the other side of the battle, and Yuzu gave her a good one.

Oulu, questioned, sends his gaze straight to Eunice, and she looks at Utsu's body from top to bottom.

"Mmm. Well, I guess."

"What kind of stuff?

"From what I've seen, it feels like a Marie one discount"

To Eunice's answer, Oul gave a more surprising voice.

That's a lot stronger than I thought.

"I'll go!

His ears grew on Utsu's head as he hung up, his chest swelled and his tail stretched.

"Eh, lie, whatever!

This also peels the boulder varnish.

Utsu thought he pulled his tail out as it was, making a pong and noise along with the white smoke and it turned into a giant wooden gavel.

"Uh, Marie, I'll help you with the scalpel!

Yutsu turned around the pattern, which was as long as his own, and waved it down toward the ghost that was about to strike Marie. At that moment, the hammer's head becomes even more gigantic and pulverizes the ghost giant. Marie black-and-white her eyes to a wall-like hammer that suddenly filled her sight.

"Come on."

If Utsu pulls the gavel, its head falls back to its original size and fits into her hands again.

"Marie, be careful next time you can avoid it"

Eunice advised him so before Utsu rolled out the hammer again.

"What the hell!

Utsu waves a wooden hammer at the ghosts who lose one of their companions and float.

But as Eunice advised, the ghost turned it aside. It's powerful and fast, but it moves too monotonously.

"Uh, uh..."

Although Marie was flying back and forth behind the ghost she had sent, she wondered what was wrong with her. Because her strength doesn't pierce the fur of a ghost.

"Oh, shit!

But she comes up with a good idea, and she replaces the sword in her hand.

"Cold and dry!

And I let that power go as I waved it down to a disfigured ghost. What the superimposition of its nature indicates is an element of soil. Even so, it doesn't create dirt like wind or flames. The sword already belongs to the earth... because steel is used. Just strengthen its nature as soil. That is, hardness and weight.

The rate at which it was swung down remained intact, and the sword, which was increased only in weight, easily cleaved off the fur of the ghost, breaking bone-by-bone.

"Wow."

Marie opened her mouth to the letter O and looked out for the result of her work.

"Stay!"

A wall protruding like a tower prevents a ghost hook claw rolled out by poking that gap.

"Thank you, Sophia!

As she thanked her, Marie met the two remaining swords in the air.

It is the true opposite of the soil, that is, the wind, that comes into being in combination with the properties of heat and moisture.

Even so, it is only powerful to the extent that it is expertly slightly disfigured.

"Finally, this too, please!

But with Sophia's help there, it would have been different.

Sophia makes a gust of wind there, as she sees Marie's laid path.

A ghost giant floated around and was thrown out into the air.

"Yup!

"Oh, yes!

Put a gavel on Marie's voice. And then spin around on the spot, bouncing off thoughtfully the ghosts falling with giant hammers as they accelerate. The pathetic ghost giant was slammed against the wall as it was, crushing bones all over his body to death.

Marie asks for Eunice's expression as she waves her sword, pays her blood and delivers it to her sheath, smiling confidently.

"Well, I guess that's the point."

"Yep."

But to that assessment, Marie raised her discontent.

"Marie moves well, but I knew you were too slow to make a decision. Utsu is too awkward in the way he fights himself on the contrary. Your abilities seem very convenient, so you should devise more ways to fight them."

"Uh, ah, yes"

Utsu is suddenly turned to talk and snorts in panic.

While giving a stern assessment, Eunice was delighted with the growth of her own apprentice in the heart.

What Marie didn't get enough of is experience in action. Considering that we have only trained our internal counterparts so far, we can say that this achievement is excellent. Besides, most of all, we made just as many friends the same age.

They will absorb each other's strengths and become stronger and stronger.

"Sophia is..."

Fumi Eunice noticed the toddler shining his eyes excitedly, thinking a little,

"Full score! Perfect! Well done!

"Oh, hey, I got it!

I caressed my head with exaggerated praise at the mercy of my hand. Sophia also tenses her chest with a masterful look.

"I'm not convinced..."

Marie, jealous of my child, was still immature.

"A split..."

Before the path divided into two parts, Oul stopped walking.

Although there were so many fine branches, none of them were big enough for people to go through, and this was the first clear division.

"Which is the right way to go?

"... no. There is no way forward either way. It's not the end."

Tena meditated often on Oulu's question and answered so by reading the future.

"By the time you got here, didn't you miss the right way?

"That's not true."

To Tena's words, Oul affirms.

"If there's a hidden passage or branch, there's no way I wouldn't notice it."

"But your lord says both passages are dead."

"… again, try to make predictions about each"

Oul thought a little and ordered Tena to do so.

"What are the numbers for each?

"... thirty-two, fifteen, minus five and thirty, fifteen, plus one... what the hell are you talking about?

Tena tells the number told to Oulu ahead of the prediction as it is.

"Coordinates. If altitude is the only difference at roughly the same coordinates, you can be sure to see that there is the deepest part in between. My failure to go and find my way... probably means I need to go both ways"

That said, Oul looked around the line.

"I don't have a choice. We're gonna split up."